> I saw tower guys installing huge sectors with 8 ports to tower top unit and
> then fiber and RF down for AT&T in 700mhz bands
>   Antennas are huge!!!!

8 ports on each antenna or 8 ports on radio unit?


> Jaime Solorza
>
> On Nov 4, 2014 2:58 PM, "Matt via Af" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I hear mention of MU-MIMO in LTE.  But to deploy MU-MIMO would it not
>> require a multiple antennas in each sector with a very expensive LTE
>> base station for each sector as well?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Gino Villarini via Af <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > If telrad adds carrier aggregation to its upcoming LTE support, then
>> > yes. 10+10 is an option
>> >
>> > Gino A. Villarini
>> > @gvillarini
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Nov 4, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Matt via Af <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is anyone looking at both these options?  Pros and cons of one vs
>> >> other?  Throughput, Sync, Interference, spectrum efficiency, cost etc?
>> >>
>> >> What I really wander is can you bond two non adjacent 10MHZ channels
>> >> with Telrad to make a 20MHZ channel?  I know you cannot with 450 and
>> >> it might become very useful down the road.  Right now with 450 and a
>> >> perfect connection on a 20MHZ channel we can do around 80Mbps
>> >> downstream per sector.  With a 10MHZ channel and not so perfect
>> >> connections that is really getting cut back.
>> >>
>> >> Also, right now we can do ABAB quite easily with 450 gear.  With LTE
>> >> can we do AAAA where spectrum is scarce?

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